Quality Manager Data Analyst

Andrew Hammer

Leesburg VA 704-***-****

*************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/andrewvhammer

Financial Data Quality Manager

Implement Changes to Drive Organizational Quality, Efficiency & Productivity

Motivated financial leader leveraging expertise in analyzing financial data and reporting to drive revenue. Deliver common objectives through collaborating with professionals at all organizational levels and building high-impacting, remote and local teams. Provide constructive feedback and targeted training to boost productivity. Prioritize and manage tasks simultaneously within deadline and compliance driven environment.

SME Fundamental Financial Data Financial Data Analysis

Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint & Outlook

In House Software (WELLS) Quality Processes Quality Control

Coaching & Mentoring Employee Training

Experience

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP (FORMERLY MERGENT INC.), Fort Mill, SC 2017 - 2021

Quality Control Manager - Remote

Supervised domestic and global team of up to 6 financial data analysts, serving as subject matter expert for capture of corporate financial fundamental data including balance sheet, income statement, retained earnings, cash flows, debt, and capital structure data.

Ensured transparency and increased team productivity through concentrating on completeness and accuracy, process efficiency and timeliness with extensive use of SEC filings, international filings, company reports, and corporate websites.

Reviewed and approved contributions to daily reporting from financial data analysts for 25K+ publicly traded companies and 20K+ foreign publicly traded companies, delivering 100% accuracy.

Mentored and trained financial data analysts, providing support, guidance, and assistance with work related queries through daily interaction.

Analyzed standard quality checks by editing data collection executed by team, safeguarding quality and timeliness of data gathered.

Managed production, timeliness, and efficiency goals of team, enabling for proper assignment of different projects within scope of fundamental data collection.

Ensured analysts met or exceeded goals and promoted average of 10 to senior analysts, filling pipeline for promotion throughout other departments.

Aided colleagues at all levels adjust to working remotely through teaching time management and technical skills, throughout pandemic, contributing to seamless transition.

Established standard on corporate information, including history items such as mergers and acquisitions, executive summaries, shareholders’, and corporate action lists for proper identification and database accuracy.

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MERGENT INC., Fort Mill, SC 2006 - 2017

Editor 2008 - 2017

Managed production and quality of 10 domestic and foreign financial data analysts through SPC feedback and editing.

Interacted with cross-functional senior management for multi-task projects, increasing scope of financial service offerings to clients and associates.

Trained financial data analysts, educating individuals on amended and expanded collection protocols to meet clients’ financial service needs.

Provided clear and concise written and verbal daily feedback, consisting of 200+ data points related to financial statements and corporate information, to Data Analyst team with goal of maintaining quality index of 95%.

Ensured analysts collected proper financial data from US and global companies, creating profiles for databases used to power data feeds, online products, and print sales, monitored and corrected coding for each company’s financials.

Worked with analysts, compiling select data points for preliminary reports required from outside vendors for immediate release to product.

Increased caliber of data points as result of collaborating with Line Manager on SQC data points and pinpointing how each relate to data collection protocols.

Prepared financial statements in accordance with appropriate accounting standards, reclassification and restatement rules, and checked analysts’ performance, ensuring accuracy of financial figures.

Sourced documents as SME in financial and corporate information research and analysis, aiding analysts in routine collection standards.

Associate Editor 2006 - 2008

Evaluated 8 financial data analysts' ongoing performance in Malaysia. Collaborated with managers to increase overall efficiencies through updated quality checks and procedures.

Ran daily Statistical Quality Control (SQC) checks, ensuring quality of finished product.

Explored new ways to improve presentation of data and share efficient research techniques, achieving standards of financial and academic clients.

Integrated IFRS collection rules to properly report international financial data as result of leveraging strong understanding of US GAAP and co-leading conversion of international company universe collection to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Engaged in discussions with managers, editors, and quality controllers, identifying areas for change to collection protocols and Wells enhancements for improved efficiency and timeliness.

Additional Experience

MERGENT INC., Charlotte, NC and Fort Mill, SC, Senior Financial Information Analyst, Financial Information Analyst

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS), Finance, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA

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